How Do You Paint Trees With Acrylics?
A tree isn’t terribly complicated to paint. Nevertheless, it can seem overwhelming if you’re unused to wielding a paintbrush. Acrylic itself presents its own challenges because it is a fast-drying medium that allows little time for blending. The upside to acrylic’s fast drying time is that this often preserves the paint’s bright colors and appearance of spontaneity. Learning to paint a tree shouldn’t take long, but as they say, practice makes perfect. The more you paint, the better you’ll get. Select a subject to paint. Especially if the tree you are painting is a central component of a larger painting (as opposed to an object in the background meant to be ignored), it is better to work from a real-life example rather than a tree that you have imagined or remembered. However, painting from a live subject, outdoors, has many drawbacks. If you paint outside, you’re subject to weather and changing light conditions. You may find that you prefer to work from a photograph, or even studies yo
